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48 CHELTENHAM COLLEGE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
LECTURES BY W. H. D. ROUSE. 
Rome. 
SHORT SKETCH was given of Roman history, shewing how 
large a part the city had played in the history of the 
world, and how traces of. most of the greatest events of 
the last two thousand years can be found there. Slides 
were shown of the oldest remains in Rome: the Maritime 
Prison, where Jugurtha, Catilina, and so many others 
suffered ; Cloaca Maxima, and the Wall of Servius Tullius. Next, 
the Forum as it is, with the foundations of the Basilica Jubia, remains 
of the temples of Castor and Pollux, of Saturn, and of. Vespasian ; 
the Rostra. the Sacred Way, the site of the Curia, and the Record 
Office. Then two bas-reliefs were shown, giving representations of 
the chief buildings in the Forum as they looked before their ruin: 
the Basilica and Temples, a triumphant arch, with the Sacred Fig-Tree, 
and the Mansyas. After this the Coliseum was thrown upon the 
screen, and the scenes were described which it had witnessed. The 
Imperial Palaces on the Palatine Hill followed, with anecdotes of 
their builders ; the Tarpeian Rock and the site of the Roman Citadel, 
now crowned by the Church of Sta. Maria Araciali; some of the 
great Baths, and the Triumphal Arches. The bas-reliefs within the 
Arch of Titus created much interest, as they show the Golden 
Candlestick, the Table of Shewbread, and other spoils of the Teinple 
at Jerusalem. After a few more of the ancient remains had passed 
before the audience then followed pictures of some modern churches, 
and of St. Peter’s, with the granite obelisk that witnessed the massacres 
of the Christians in Nero’s garden, and probably the crucifixion of 
St. Peter himself. 
GREEK SCULPTURE. 
The primitive statues of Greece were rudely carved out of a tree- 
trunk. Of course none of these now remain, but their style can be 
observed from certain ancient stone and clay images, which have all 
the marks of wood technique, in the stiffness of attitude and straight- 
ness of line. Some of these are flat, as though their models were 
carved out of a board ; others round, as though made from a tree- 
trunk. After these had been examined and explained, the lecturer 
proceeded to show Egyptian statues, and for comparison, one or two 
